Rackspace is achieving the identified goals through an integrated approach of increasing both on-page relevancy and earned media signals. These strategies are aimed at influencing search and directing traffic to its website.

At Zendesk, they see using New Relic and Rackspace® solutions as a winning combination. New Relic allows them
to understand the performance characteristics of their application, to monitor performance and quickly drill down to
find and resolve issues. Additionally, New Relic shows Zendesk how their application interacts with the Rackspace infrastructure underpinnings so they can achieve the most effective and efficient use of their hosting environment. Together the Rackspace hosting environment and the New Relic application performance tool creates a foundation for SaaS application success. In turn, this frees up the Zendesk team to work on application features.

Distributed computing has been pervasive in IT organisations for nearly two decades, but the tables are beginning to turn.
This whitepaper discusses Rackspace's experience in quick deployment and hosting of VDI environments.

This whitepaper discusses the IT challenges enterprises face and how the Cloud can help overcome those challenges.
It then defines different Cloud configurations and provides guidance on enterprise decision-making regarding Cloud applications and platforms.

Performance testing and benchmarking of cloud computing platforms is a complex task, compounded by the differences between providers and the use cases of cloud computing users. IaaS services are utilized by a large variety of industries and, performance metrics cannot be understood by simply representing cloud performance with a single value. When selecting a cloud computing provider, IT professionals consider many factors: compatibility, performance, cost, security and more. Performance is a key factor that drives many others including cost. In many cases, 3 primary bottlenecks affect server performance: central processing unit (CPU) performance, disk performance, and internal network performance.

This report summarizes testing of CenturyLink Cloud Hyperscale compute instances in April 2014. Compute instances from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Rackspace Cloud, as well as non-Hyperscale CenturyLink Cloud instances were included in testing for comparison purposes. CenturyLink engaged CloudHarmony to conduct this testing and provide independent performance analysis and comparisons of these services. This report summarizes the results of this testing.

Managed Colocation from Rackspace® Hosting is all the things you want from traditional colocation, such as freedom and control, and none of the things you don't-like the hassles of infrastructure management.

Understand how much of your company's time and efforts will be focused on managing servers or on driving innovators for your business and decide which hosting solution best supports what you want to do.

Because of the critical nature of E-commerce, a web hosting solution that provides constant
and reliable internet connectivity is often required in order to accommodate transactional requests from the organizations' consumers.

To achieve PCI DSS compliance, you must identify and remediate all critical vulnerabilities detected during PCI scans. Threat Manager streamlines this process by providing simple, actionable reports that detail vulnerabilities and recommendations. There is also a Dispute Wizard that helps document compensating controls that are in place to remediate specific vulnerabilities. PCI scans include the following reports: Executive Summary: Overview of scan results and a statement of compliance or non-compliance. Vulnerability Details: Provides a detailed description, list of impacted hosts,risk level and remediation tips for each vulnerability found. Attestation of Scan Compliance: Overall summary of network posture, compliance status and assertion that the scan complies with PCI requirements.

Defending against application security threats is an ongoing battle. With new threats emerging every day, this whitepaper provides insight into how to leverage threat and log management technologies to protect your IT assets throughout their vulnerability life cycle.

To comply with today’s government and industry mandates, such as PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and GLBA, log data must be collected, regularly reviewed and archived. In addition, regular analysis and forensics can also be performed on the same log data to enhance overall security and availability. This paper discusses the challenges associated with effective log management and enables you to better define best practices and requirements for log management projects, as well as log
management and review solutions.

With large data breaches affecting retailers in 2013 and the PCI DSS 3.0 January 1, 2015 deadline approaching, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is an important topic for many organizations in 2014. PCI DSS requirements can be challenging to meet from a time, resources and cost perspective. Requirements 6, 10 and 11 can be some of the most costly and resource intensive, requiring log management, vulnerability assessment, intrusion detection and a web application firewall. Alert Logic delivers solutions to meet these and other PCI DSS requirements. As the security industry’s only provider of on-demand log management, threat management, web application security, and IT compliance automation solutions, Alert Logic provides organizations with the easiest and most affordable way to secure their networks and comply with policies and regulations.

A new version of the PCI DSS standard was released in January of this year, containing some new and updated requirements. This handy quick reference outlines the 12 PCI DSS 3.0 requirements, who needs to be compliant and how Alert Logic solutions address the new standard.

Determining which model works best for your organization means understanding the following requirements:
Technical: Can the workload actually be hosted in the cloud?
Compliance: Regulation may determine where and how their data and workloads can be run and stored.
Security: Each workload has separate security requirements, creating challenges to run in the public cloud.

This whitepaper examines how businesses can leverage the benefits of a Microsoft Private Cloud, and taking advantage of the following functions:
•Enabling self-service.
•Federating your Microsoft® Cloud Platform
•Taking advantage of software-defined networking.
•Messaging services.
•Database as a Service (DBaaS) and its advantages.

Watch as industry experts discuss strategies for overcoming design, deployment, and monitoring challenges in a Microsoft Cloud Platform environment. They examine real-life situations in which Rackspace architected and deployed Microsoft Private Cloud at scale, across multiple geographies. You’ll get first-hand what Red Hat has learned along the way, such as how to approach the integration of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) functionality, designing resilient architectures and failover, as well as building for scale.